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Austin Jackson

Austin Jackson is an assistant professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. His research and teaching interests include writing and rhetoric, African American Language and literacy, and qualitative research in English education. He serves as Director of the My Brother’s Keeper’s Program, a mentoring program for middle school students attending the Paul Robeson - Malcolm X Academy (K – 8th grade) in Detroit, MI. He has co-authored several publications exploring links between critical approaches to writing pedagogy and student participation in contemporary struggles for critical democracy.

Brian Jackson

Brian Jackson has been teaching writing for fifteen years. He coordinates University Writing at Brigham Young University, training graduate students and working with writing faculty. His work on college writing has appeared in Composition Studies, College Composition and Communication, and WPA Writing Program Administration. He's spent the last seven years working with graduate students and publishing on issues like dual enrollment and observing writing instructors (in Assessing the Teaching of Writing, edited by Amy Dayton). His new book, Trained Capacities, co-edited with Greg Clark, explores the continued vitality of philosopher John Dewey for rhetoric and writing studies. He lives in Provo, Utah, with his wife Amy and their four kids.

Lee A. Jacobus

Lee A. Jacobus is professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut and the author/editor of popular English and drama textbooks, among them The Bedford Introduction to Drama and A World of Ideas. He has written scholarly books on Paradise Lost, on the works of John Cleveland, and on the works of Shakespeare, including Shakespeare and the Dialectic of Certainty. He is also a playwright and author of fiction. Two of his plays — Fair Warning and Long Division — were produced in New York by the American Theater of Actors, and Dance Therapy, three one-act plays, was produced in New York at Where Eagles Dare Theatre. His book Hawaiian Tales: The Girl With Heavenly Eyes (TellMe Press 2014) is a collection of short stories set in Hawaii.

Carol Jago

Carol Jago has taught English in middle and high school for thirty-two years and directs the California Reading and Literature Project at UCLA. She is currently president of the National Council of Teachers of English. Jago served as AP Literature content advisor for the College Board and now serves on their English Academic Advisory committee. She has published six books with Heinemann, including With Rigor for All and Papers, Papers, Papers. She has also published four books on contemporary multicultural authors for NCTE’s High School Literature series. Carol was an education columnist for the Los Angeles Times, and her essays have appeared in English Journal, Language Arts, NEA Today, as well as in other newspapers across the nation. She edits the journal of the California Association of Teachers of English, California English, and served on the planning committee for the 2009 NAEP Reading Framework and the 2011 NAEP Writing Framework.

Henry James

Henry James (1843-1916) was an iconic figure of nineteenth century literature. Among his many masterpieces are The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Europeans, The Golden Bowl, and Washington Square. As well as fiction, James produced several works of travel literature and biography, and was one of the great letter writers of any age. A contemporary and friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, Edith Wharton, and Joseph Conrad, James continues to exert a major influence on generations of novelists and writers.

T. R. Johnson

T. R. Johnson has directed the writing program at Tulane University since 2004. He is the author of A Rhetoric of Pleasure: Prose Style and Today's Composition Classroom and the coeditor with Tom Pace of Refiguring Prose Style: Possibilities for Writing Pedagogy. He hosts a weekly radio program devoted to contemporary jazz every Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. CST at www.wwoz.org. He has taught at Boston University, the University of New Orleans, and the University of Louisville. His work has appeared College English, JAC, and College Composition and Communication.

Linck Johnson

Linck Johnson (BA, Cornell University; PhD, Princeton University), the Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Colgate University, has taught courses in writing and American literature and culture since 1974. He is the author of Thoreau's Complex Weave: The Writing of "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," with the Text of the First Draft, the Historical Introduction to A Week in the Princeton University Press edition of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, and numerous articles and contributions to books. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society, he is a member of the Editorial Board of the Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance.

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Jay Jordan

Jay Jordan is Assistant Professor of English in the University Writing Program at the University of Utah, where he coordinates first-year composition. His research interests include second language writing, English as an international language, rhetoric and design, and histories of rhetoric. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on writing, writing pedagogy, and rhetorical theory and history. He has published in CCC, College English, and Rhetoric Review, and his work has appeared in several edited collections. He is coeditor of Second Language Writing in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook (Bedford/St. Martin’s) and of Reinventing Identities in Second Language Writing (NCTE). He is currently finishing a book manuscript on how second language writers negotiate curricula in typical US composition courses. He is active in CCCC and NCTE.